Top 100 Close Open Quotes

#1. The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora's box, and you can't close it again.

Michael Redhill

#2. Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there is a lot of noise, but if you close your eyes and picture yourself in an open field or a quiet forest, you can maybe make it to the end without killing yourself

Jon Lajoie

#3. When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#4. You say that you love rain,
but you open your umbrella when it rains.
You say that you love the sun,
but you find a shadow spot when the sun shine.
You say that you love the wind,
but you close your windows when wind blows.
This is why I am afraid,you say that you love me too.

Anonymous

#5. I do what he says and I close my eyes and open my mouth and the next thing I know he's got his twenty-eight-year-old tongue in my thirteen-year-old mouth and all I can think is that I don't think the hero is supposed to be doing this.

Andrea Portes

#6. The only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark, to walk in it with eyes wide open, to be a part of it. To keep your enemies close.

C.J. Roberts

#7. We were created for intimacy, to connect with someone with heart, soul, and mind. Intimacy occurs when we are open, vulnerable, and honest, for these qualities help us to be close to each other.

Henry Cloud

#8. Republican primary voters, whether they're close primaries or open, are voting for anybody but candidates attached to the Republican establishment.

Rush Limbaugh

#9. Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn't matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.

Michael Anthony

#10. Close your eyes, cover your ears with your hands and open your soul.

Kurban Said

#11. I open at the close.

J.K. Rowling

#12. Close all the books
Open the Heart's book
Read out loud and clear
And then you shall BE the TRUTH
And you shall be a mighty kindness.

Gabriel Iqbal

#13. Life's a roller coaster. Best damn ride in the park. You don't close your eyes, hold on and wait for it to be over, babe. You keep your eyes open, lift your hands straight up in the air and enjoy the ride for as long as it lasts.

Kristen Ashley

#14. Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

Rachel Caine

#15. In a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.

Marilyn French

#16. By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

Pema Chodron

#17. I think 'Sex and the City' is a chapter that will never close. In a wonderful way, it's always going to be an open chapter because it seems like new generations discover the show and relate to it, which is amazing, and you can't hope for that.

Darren Star

#18. One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we have been close to for decades.

Sharon Salzberg

#19. She looked into the shadowed corners of the room. Talking with him was like having a flower unfold inside her chest, then close up tight. Creep open. Collapse in on itself.

Marie Rutkoski

#20. I am a gardener
I plant hearts
I have no other knowledge
No language now
Close the language door and
open the heart portal
Where everything connects as ONE.

Gabriel Iqbal

#21. Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. ... All those things.

R.M. Engelhardt

#22. American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

Lincoln Chafee

#23. In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.

John Dobbin

#24. You are free. Close your eyes. Open your mind. Let this music in, and you will see that this is true

John Frusciante

#25. I try to force my eyes open, but there's not much point - all I can see is a watery blur before my reflexes kick in and my eyelids close. In the space of just a few minutes, I've gone from 20/20 vision to blind. In space. Holding a drill.

Chris Hadfield

#26. Do not belong to those who only get their thoughts from books, or at the prompting of books,-it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#27. open societies will once again be urged to close in upon themselves, sacrificing freedom for 'security'.

Tony Judt

#28. Forgiving someone who hurt you is hard as hell to actually do, but in the end, it brings you the kind of relief you need to move on. Like when you close a book, so you can open up a new one.

Abi Ketner

#29. Close your lips in anger, open in admiration

Ipsit Bibhudarshi

#30. Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?

Roman Payne

#31. I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.

Cesar Millan

#32. Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.

John Piper

#33. 'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.

Naomi Wolf

#34. In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

Jane Seymour

#35. I got a garage door opener. It can't close. Just open.

Steven Wright

#36. At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door
and open the love-window.
The moon won't use the door,
only the window.

Rumi

#37. Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

Stokely Carmichael

#38. We eventually learn that emotional closure is our own action. We can be responsible for it. In any moment, we can choose to open or to close.

David Deida

#39. A simple way to be grateful is to close your eyes for a minute and think of those who never got a chance to open them.-RVM

R.v.m.

#40. When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.

Alain Ducasse

#41. We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.

Natalie Goldberg

#42. close your eyes, count 1 through 10 and then open your eyes again. Those ten seconds will allow you to eliminate the itching sensation of doing something else. This technique is actually a form of quick meditation that can make you become a more focused person in due course.

Mark Haldin

#43. Each night at bedtime, I'd close the bedroom door, climb into bed, and settle in under the covers. Within a minute, the door handle would turn and the door slowly open about a foot. Then a young boy's screams of "Daddy" would follow from the second bedroom - the little boy's room.

Paul Stefaniak

#44. A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

Amit Kalantri

#45. A few moments passed by until I heard a door open, a few light footsteps then a whisper,"If she has blonde hair, a mole on her left cheek and huge tits, close the door right fucking now.

L.A. Casey

#46. Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations.

Robert McKee

#47. My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

Marie Lu

#48. Twitter can be incredibly valuable as an open communications mechanism, but if you close too many things down too quickly, if you think about it too short-sightedly, you could easily do a lot of damage to that ecosystem.

Mike McCue

#49. Grief is better than happiness, because in grief a person draws close to God. Your wings open. A tent is set up in the desert where God can visit you. Wealth that arrives in grief is what we spend in joy. The soul is greater than anything you ever lost.

Bahauddin

#50. Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them.

David Mitchell

#51. Words either open dialogues or close minds.

Dane Grannon

#52. In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Teju Cole

#53. Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Leo Buscaglia

#54. Think not that a long period intervenes between the instant of death and the eternity of glory. When the eyes close on earth they open in heaven.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#55. There are no limits when you are surrounded by people who believe in you, or by people whose expectations are not set by the short-sighted attitudes of society, or by people who help to open doors of opportunity, not close them.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#56. Option key means "apply this action to all windows. " For example, Option-double-clicking any title bar minimizes all desktop windows, sending them flying to the Dock.Option-clicking the Close button closes all open desktop

Anonymous

#57. This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#58. We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.

Pema Chodron

#59. Moral wounds have the peculiarity that they are invisible, but do not close: always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain tender and open in the heart. When

Alexandre Dumas

#60. Our world is rapidly drawing to a close; a new one is about to open. If it is to flourish it will have to rest on deeds as well as faith. The word will have to become flesh.

Henry Miller

#61. While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

Haim G. Ginott

#62. Lie on your back and keep your eyes open. If they start to close, focus on keeping them open. This trick works because it is the opposite of "trying to fall asleep," which is impossible.

Deepak Chopra

#63. The world feels so big when you're out in the wide open. It's like you don't have a place in it when you don't have a home."
"Your place is right here," I whispered, laying down and hugging her close.

Gayle Forman

#64. Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.

Sally Ride

#65. A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.

John Stossel

#66. The window was still open," Mr Lisbon said. "I don't think we'd ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close that window or else she'd go on jumping out of it forever.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#67. They'll try to close the door on you ... Just open it.

DJ Khaled

#68. For every door your enemies close,
knowledge can open a hundred for you,
wisdom can open a thousand for you,
faith can open a million for you,
and God can open countless for you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#69. Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

#70. I know now that doors open as quickly as they close. That nothing very good or very bad lasts for very long.

Shehan Karunatilaka

#71. The manikins, I mean the little men who held the shutters open during the day, those little metal figures: when you wanted to close the shutters you swivelled them round so that all night long they hung head down.

Amos Oz

#72. An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one's eye, it may open in its center an infinite and radiant perspective because a higher order of being is trying to express itself in it and irradiates it violently.

Bruno Schulz

#73. Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#74. Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.

Anne Graham Lotz

#75. Close your eyes and listen, then walk twenty paces farther than you thought necessary. Just when you're certain you've lost your way completely, you'll be there. Open your eyes.

Alice Hoffman

#76. When the doors begin to close, the mind begins to open.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#77. And I loved long drives
how you can close your eyes,
then open, and everything around you has changed.

Amber Dawn

#78. Her body felt like it'd been beaten with a hose. This must be what it felt like to get old. It wasn't that your body fell apart from living so long. It was that you had to take so many stompings from life that you'd be happy when the time came to close your eyes and never open them again.

Janet Fitch

#79. A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.

Keith Richards

#80. Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

Laozi

#81. We all tend to make zealous judgments and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. If we feel that we already know something in its totality, then we fail to keep our ears and eyes open to that which may expand or even changes that which we so zealously think we know.

Madeleine L'Engle

#82. A diagnosis . . . should not be used to close doors, but rather to open them wider, by making modifications in programs to accommodate special needs, by adding to the understanding that teachers, social workers, lawyers and judges have for affected individuals.

Bonnie Buxton

#83. For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#84. Some dream with the open eyes, while some dream with the close eyes.

Some of us even don't have eyes, they dream with the legendary perspective to enlighten the whole world and become one.

"Touch the light of the universe, you would never sleep again in your fantasy dreams.

Deepak Gupta

#85. Gates Open at Nightfall & Close at Dawn in swirly lettering, and under that, in tiny plain letters: Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated Bailey doesn't know what "exsanguinated" means, but he doesn't much like the sound of it.

Erin Morgenstern

#86. I want to convey how beautiful it is to close your eyes and dream. And then to open them and make that dream a reality.

Puff Daddy

#87. I realized I was a teacher when I felt warm during class and got up to open the door. Later on there was noise in the hallway, so I got up and shut it. Students can't open and close the door whenever they feel like it.

David Sedaris

#88. When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.

Wayne Muller

#89. Laugh at the night, at the day, at the moon, laugh at the twisted streets of the island, laugh at this clumsy boy who loves you, but when I open my eyes and close them, when my steps go, when my steps return, deny me bread, air, light, spring, but never your laughter for I would die.

Pablo Neruda

#90. This breath, and this moment, and this life is a gift and we are all in this together. We all have countless choices every day to close down or stand up straight and open up, and take a big breath and say YES to the gift.

Rob Bell

#91. Is that love? It seems like a pale word, too easily tossed about by people who don't know the meaning of it, who twist it for their own ends. I'm afraid of it now, right up there with clowns, close spaces, and open flames.

Ann Aguirre

#92. Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.

Edmundo Desnoes

#93. It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored ... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.

L'Wren Scott

#94. The doors that open and close in our lives are not nearly as important as the person we are when we open them.

John Bruna

#95. That's me, keeping things bitchy from open to close." I turned around and gave him my customer service smile.

Katherine McIntyre

#96. I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.

David Hockney

#97. Close your outer eyes and open your inner eyes.

Mark Victor Hansen

#98. It was all I wanted for the longest time- to open my eyes and see you there. To stretch out my hand and touch the soft, yielding warmth of your skin. But now I have learned the secret of distance. Now I know being close to you was never about the proximity.

Lang Leav

#99. As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?

Dani Shapiro

#100. If you knew the kind of little miracles happening every moment you breathe in, you wouldn't be able to handle it. A valve could close and not open; an artery could split, you could die. At any moment. It's nothing but miracles inside your tiny city.

Sally Thorne

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